Unlike most of my zoids customs I didn't make any new parts for this one rather I thought I should let the quality of the paint job speak for its self. For this project I used two vials of paint. Testors enamel red and testors enamel yellow. These stick well to plastics and dry quickly. Though not as quickly as acrylic they give off a quality shine which is good in this case as I wanted the paint job to look as if it were plastic its self. I started by removing all of the armor pieces and aplied a red boase coat. That is with the exception of the tail which just would not freaking come off. Anyway I then mixed up some red and yellow until I had the desirable shade of orange and for the major flame areas in orange while the red paint was still wet. This is normally a big nono in painting but this isn't your ordinary paint job, since I actually wanted the colors to blend for a better fire effect. Finally after thuroughly clensing the brush I applied small bits of yellow to the very edges of the flame patters, with very little yellow actually on the brush and slapped it back and fourth to splatter it a bit and create a more real broken up flame effect. For the smaller flames I just ran a brush with yellow across still wet red. This was primarily on the blade and feet. And incase you're wondering yes the blade can still go back down. I was careful not to paint it into place and to leave the coat thin enough to allow it to slide back in without scratching. And no I didn't run out of paint on the wings I like the red highlights against the dark translucent plastic. As for the booster cannons again I didn't run out of paint I just chose to go with the tasteful mechanical gray spoiting out flames for a sort of flamethrower look. too many flames would have been gaudy after all. The thing about customing is often to know when to stop. With zoids I usually opt to leave the underbody its natural color and focus on painting the armor.